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Lex, Rex
Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the aid and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet entitled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelate. : with a scriptural confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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2. Jer. 26. It is clear, The Princes judge with the people: A nomothetic power differeth gradually only from a judicial power, both being collateral means to the end of Government, the peoples safety. But Parliaments judge, ergo, they have a nomothetic power with the King.
2. Jer. 26. It is cleare, The Princes judge with the people: A nomothetick power differeth gradually only from a judiciall power, both being collaterall meanes to the end of Government, the peoples safetie. But Parliaments judge, ergo, they have a nomothetick power with the King.
3. The Parliament giveth all supremacy to the King; ergo, to prevent Tyranny, it must keep a coordinate power with the King, in the highest acts.
3. The Parliament giveth all supremacie to the King; ergo, to prevent Tyrannie, it must keep a coordinate power with the King, in the highest acts.
4. If the Kingly line be interrupted, if the King be a Child, or a Captive, they make Laws, who make Kings; Ergo, this nomothetic power recurreth into the States, as to the first subject.
4. If the Kingly line be interrupted, if the King be a Childe, or a Captive, they make Lawes, who make Kings; Ergo, this nomothetick power recurreth into the States, as to the first subject.